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A few books recommended by Bill Gates Reading is my favorite way to indulge （放纵）my desire to know the world. Although I get to meet with a lot of interesting people and visit fascinating places through my work, I still think books are the best way to explore new topics that interest you. Here are four amazing books I read recently: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are twisted （交织）together, you should read this book. Desmond gave me a better sense of what it is like to be poor in this country than anything else I have read. Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil. Smil is one of my favorite authors, and this is his most famous book. He presents clearly how our need for energy has shaped human history. It’s not the easiest book to read, but at the end you’ll feel smarter and better informed about how energy innovation changes the course of civilizations. The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui. This novel explores what it means to be a parent and a refugee （难 民）.The author’s family fled Vietnam in 1978. After giving birth to her own child, she decides to learn more about her parents’ experiences of growing up in a country torn apart by foreign occupiers. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and JazzChickens, by Eddie Izzard. Izzard’s personal story in this book is attractive: he survived a difficult childhood and worked continuously to overcome his lack of natural talent and become an international star. If you’re a huge fen of him like I am, you’ll love this book. His written voice is very similar to his stage voice, and I found myself laughing out loud several times while reading it. 【1】What does Matthew Desmond try to explore? A.Different causes of poverty. B.The struggle of poor people. C.How to escape from poverty. D.Ways to live in a poor country. 【2】The book Energy and Civilization: A History fells into the category of_____. A.economy B.education C.literature D.history 【3】What do the last two books have in common? A.They are popular around the world. B.They are expected to inspire readers. C.They focus on lives of ordinary people. D.They are based on personal experiences. |
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One dilemma that the super famous face is balancing the needs of privacy and recognition. For some stars privacy is an overvalued thing. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford went on their European honeymoon. The two international idols had divorced their previous spouses （配偶）and were concerned about how they would be greeted. They needn’t have worried. In London their car was surrounded by admiring women who pulled Mary out of the car to shake her hand, still grateful after two years for her efforts selling war bonds. In Paris they couldn’t get any sleep with crowds gathering below their hotel room to sing and play for them. In Amsterdam they attended a party and were mobbed （包围）by other guests who wanted to get close to them. The athletic Fairbanks placed his wife on his shoulder and escaped through the window. Finally, they found privacy in Hamburg, where their movies were not shown because of World War I. For an hour the famous newly-married couple walked the streets unnoticed until the bored Mary turned to her husband and said, “Doug, I’m sick of this. Let’s go back to one of those countries where they mob us.” Joan Crawford had similar feelings. Once in the 1930s she was staying in New York getting over her breakup with Clark Gable. Tired of staying around her hotel feeling so down she told her entourage （随从） they should go out and get some fresh air. The entourage, who had trouble keeping up with the star’s quick pace, were shocked when she walked away from their planned road. "Oh my God. She’s going into Grand Central Station!" Someone shouted, “Look, it’s Joan Crawford! And she was mobbed. It took them thirty minutes to escape the crowd and get back to their hotel suite. Her hair disheveled （凌乱），her dress tom and her face scratched, Crawford leaned against the door out of breath. "Oh.,. oh my. That was wonderful. Let’s do it again!” 【1】What did Douglas and Mary worry about before going to Europe? A.Nobody would greet them. B.They wouldn’t be welcomed. C.Their war bonds wouldn’t sell well. D.Their schedule would be made public. 【2】What does Mary’s words in the second paragraph suggest? A.Hamburg was too quiet a place for her. B.Her movies weren’t shown in Hamburg. C.She fell ill after arriving in a new place. D.She didn’t really enjoy privacy so much. 【3】What did Joan Crawford think of her being mobbed in New York? A.Amusing. B.Enjoyable. C.Dangerous. D.Embarrassing. 【4】The author tells stories about the movie stars to show that______. A.they may feel down from time to time B.they deserve people’s love and respect C.they need both privacy and public attention D.they are not always popular around the world |
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The next time your brain refuses to recall a simple fact or name, be thankful. That could be a sign that your brain is getting rid of unnecessary information so that it can operate more efficiently, and help you make better decisions. Researchers who study how the brain stores information find that when neurons （神经元）are connected to the hippocampus — a region of the brain that plays a significant role in learning and remembering - they overwrite （覆盖）old memories, making them harder to access. Why does the brain spend so much energy erasing memories? Researchers believe that forgetting old information makes the brain more efficient. In a 2016 study, a team of scientists taught a group of mice to locate a maze （迷宫）.The researchers erased the memories of some mice with drugs and moved the maze. The mice who still had memories of its original location had a harder time finding the new site than those that had no memory. Additionally, the team believes that keeping too much detail could prevent people from making good decisions. In fact, evolution has shaped our memory not to win a game of unimportant matters, but to make intelligent decisions. And when we look at what’s needed to make intelligent decisions, we would argue that that it’s healthy to forget some things. The scientists say what the brain decides to forget is determined by our daily life. The memories the brain decides to lose are exactly those details from your life that don’t actually matter and that may be keeping you from making good decisions. So the next time you are unable to recall a seemingly important fact, don’t be hard on yourself. Your brain is making room for information that can contribute to making you smarter! Remember, even Albert Einstein was absent-minded! 【1】What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A.Old memories. B.New memories. C.Neurons. D.Researchers. 【2】What does the 2016 study suggest? A.Old memories affects decision-making. B.Old memories can’t be erased by drugs. C.Mice can’t locate a maze without memories. D.Drugs make mice smarter in locating a maze. 【3】What does the last sentence of the text imply? A.It isn’t easy to make intelligent decisions. B.Einstein was as ordinary as normal people. C.It’s normal for people to forget small things. D.Einstein is a good example of absent-mindedness. 【4】Which is the best title for the passage? A.How Does Your Brain Work? B.How Can We Become Smarter? C.Forgetting Makes You Smarter D.Brain Chooses What To Memorize |
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How would it feel to be the last person on Earth who speaks your language? For those of us whose native languages have millions of speakers, it’s almost impossible to imagine. And yet languages have come and gone throughout human history, and they continue to do so. Linguists estimate that of the world’s approximately 6,900 languages, more than half are at risk of dying out by the end of the 21st century. Sometimes languages die out quickly. This can happen when small communities of speakers are wiped out by disasters or war. In El Salvador, for example, speakers of the indigenous （土生土长的）Lenca and Cacaopera abandoned their languages to avoid being identified as Indians after Salvadoran troops killed tens of thousands of mostly indigenous peasants in 1932 in order to put down an uprising （起义）. Most languages, though, die out gradually as many generations of speakers become very good at two languages and then begin to lose their advantages in their traditional languages. This often happens when speakers seek to learn a more-respected language in order to gain social and economic advantages or to avoid discrimination. The gradual disappearance of Coptic as a spoken language in Egypt following the rise of Arabic in the 7th century is one example of this type of change. Modernization and globalization have strengthened these forces, and peoples around the world now face great pressure to adopt the common languages used in government, commerce, technology, entertainment, and diplomacy. Do languages have an afterlife? In many cases, yes. Dedicated preservationists often bring languages back into use again as a matter of regional or ethnic （民族的）identity. The most-famous example is Hebrew, which died out as a spoken language in the 2nd century CE （although it continued to be used as a language of religion and scholarship）. The spoken language returned to its regular usage in a modernized form in the 19th-20th century and is now the first language of millions of people in Israel. 【1】What does the passage mainly tell us? A.Why languages die. B.Where languages go. C.How languages survive. D.When languages change. 【2】How does a war influence a language according to Paragraph 2? A.By creating a much better language. B.By ordering people to use another one. C.By forbidding people to use it in public. D.By decreasing the number of its speakers. 【3】What can be learned about Coptic in the 7th century? A.Its speakers had higher earnings than others. B.It was considered less-respected than Arabic. C.It speeded up modernization and globalization. D.Its disappearance resulted in the popularity of Arabic. 【4】The example of Hebrew suggests that_____. A.some languages have advantages over others B.measures should be taken to protect languages C.dead languages have a chance to be used again D.languages are important to religion and scholarship |
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Pain is usually connected to a nervous system. When you put your hand too close to a hot stove, nerve cells send a warning of danger to your brain. 【1】 That, in turn, causes you to pull your hand away before any serious damage is done. Plants don’t have nerves or brains, so they can’t feel pain like you do. 【2】 And since they can’t escape a potentially dangerous situation, they need other ways of fighting back. The biggest threat to a plant’s life is getting eaten. Some plants discourage plant-eaters from chewing on them by growing thorns or sharp little hairs, like a rose or a cactus does. Other plants produce bad-tasting or even toxic chemicals. 【3】 But a plant called bittersweet nightshade does something even more smartly. When a slug, a small creature, chews holes in a nightshade’s leaf, a kind of sweet juice begins dripping out of the edges of the wound, almost as if the plant were bleeding. 【4】 In their quest to collect the juice, the ants gather all over the injured nightshade plant and attack anything that stands in their way - including the slug that damaged the plant in the first place. In short: Slug attacks plant; plant calls army of ants to come closer to kill slug. Thus, the plant can help itself by calling the enemies of its own enemies. 【5】 But they have armies of cold-blooded killers always ready to obey their orders. A.Plants may look like passive victims. B.Your brain recognizes that signal as pain. C.This sweet juice successfully drives the slug away. D.Your brain is definitely a complex nervous system, E.The sweet juice happens to be a favorite food of ants. F.These force potential attackers to abandon their meals. G.But plants definitely do recognize when something is hurting them. |
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Victor, a mentally ill 38-year-old homeless man, was dropped off on a street by his mother and told to wait for her to return. Three years later, he was still standing at the _______ street comer waiting for his mother. Ginger _______ Victor’s street comer every day on her way to work at a nearby _______ . As winter approached, Ginger started to _______ how Victor would handle the cold. At her lunch break, she would visit her _______ neighbor and chat with him. The two _______ started a friendship and Ginger invited her new _______ to stay at her place whenever the weather got too bad. Since they became _______, Ginger has brought Victor into several mental health clinics and even gotten him a job at her restaurant. To increase _______ of his situation, she created a Facebook page “This is Victor”, which raised money for Victor’s living costs. It gives ________ to Victor’s life regularly - and he has reportedly been doing ________ . “Tonight Victor laughed. As he laughed I could almost see the tension leave his ________. The years of stress and worry and the ________ that was bothering him now ________ melting away,” wrote Ginger. “How lost he was at the comer! How sad we were to see him that way! And how ________ we can be that now he’s not just smiling, but laughing! And now we can smile too.” 【1】A.familiar B.quiet C.same D.secret 【2】A.drove by B.looked at C.came across D.paid attention to 【3】A.institute B.company C.restaurant D.clinic 【4】A.find out B.worry about C.study D.ask 【5】A.old B.homeless C.cold D.former 【6】A.hardly B.luckily C.unexpectedly D.eventually 【7】A.neighbor B.guest C.acquaintance D.employee 【8】A.satisfied B.worried C.noticeable D.close 【9】A.confidence B.awareness C.investment D.appreciation 【10】A.updates B.comments C.money D.introduction 【11】A.differently B.poorly C.meaningfully D.amazingly 【12】A.body B.house C.page D.comer 【13】A.anxiety B.anger C.love D.excitement 【14】A.sadly B.unusually C.slowly D.easily 【15】A.disappointed B.worried C.patient D.thankful |
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单同的正确形式。 China is pretty much obsessed with QR Codes, which were responsible for $8 trillion worth of business deals last year. No 【1】 (sign) show that they are slowing down. Businesses should look to China when 【2】 comes to comprehending just how far QR Code usage can really go. China had long realized the 【3】 (convenient) of using QR Codes as a method of payment. WeChat is without a doubt the top App in China, especially 【4】 (consider) that 93% of the population there uses it. This App includes a function 【5】 (name) WeChat Wallet, and people in China usually pay through the QR Codes 【6】 are generated through WeChat Wallet, which needs to be connected 【7】 users’ bank account and then they can start spending immediately. Basically every type of vendor is obtaining payments through QR Codes. They 【8】 (use) for bike-renting, grocery shopping, hotel reservation and many other things. QR Codes are 【9】(simple) so popular that even beggars are using them 【10】 (collect) donations! |
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你校下周五晚的英语戏剧表演活动（English Drama Show）由英语戏剧社组织。假定你是戏剧社的负责人，请你写一份英文通知，在校广播站的“English Time”栏目播出，邀请学生观看,内容包括： 1.时间和地点； 2.表演内容； 3.活动目的。 注意：1.写作词数应为80左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear fellow students, ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 Being a single parent can be extremely difficult. I recently went through a rough time while raising my four daughters on my own. Things had not been going well for me ever since we decided to take care of ourselves. My financial situation was not great since I had four growing girls to feed on my own. As a result of that, my family car was left in bad shape. As it broke down from time to time, I only used the car when it was absolutely necessary to do so. But one rainy night, we desperately needed groceries so the five of us went for a quick run to the store. Once we had loaded groceries to the car, it wouldn’t start no matter how I tried. I was helpless in the parking lot with my four daughters aged 9, 5, 2 and a 6-weeks old. To make matters worse, I was not able to call anyone because my phone was disconnected. One of my girls had mistakenly left a light on, and my battery was dead. I had no family to speak to and was on my own. I must have asked more than twenty people for help during the two hours. They all ignored me. Not even a no. They just acted like I didn’t exist. My 5-year-old was melting down. My newborn screaming, my two-year-old crying she was hungry, and my oldest desperately trying to help. I was crying and felt like the worst mom ever When everything seemed hopeless, an elderly man, most probably in his 70s, came over and gave me a plate of chicken strips, biscuits and some water. He asked me to feed my girls and myself. He also said that he arranged for a tow truck to come get my car and his wife was on the way to fetch us back home. The tow truck came, the old man’s wife arrived to fetch us and we were finally back home. 注意：1.续写词数应为150左右： 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 The next morning, the old man appeared at my front door along with a mechanic （修理工）. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After the mechanic left, I tried to find the old man. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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